René Konen

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René "Boy" Konen (born April 23, 1923 in Binsfeld , Weiswampach ; † November 14, 1994 in Luxembourg ) was a Luxembourg politician of the Democratic Party (DP), who was president of the DP between 1969 and 1971 and was a minister of various departments.

Life

René "Boy" Konen was named in honor of the René Konen Tunnel in Luxembourg City, which opened on June 18, 1988 and is popularly known as the Heilig-Geist-Tunnel (Helleg-Geescht Tunnel) .

René Konen played for the Young Boys Diekirch football club , where he was the youngest player to be nicknamed "Boy". During World War II he was in 1941 the founding members of the resistance movement Lëtzeburger Patriote League (LPL) and, after his arrest by the German occupying forces in Hinzert SS special camp interned. After he managed to escape, he joined an underground movement in France . After the end of the war he attended the Lycée classique de Diekirch and after the state examination worked as a civil servant in the tax administration. In 1948 he was one of the founding members of the Groupement Patriotique et Démocratique (GPD), from which the Democratic Party DP ( Democratic Party ) emerged on April 24, 1955 .

Konen was the aldermen of Ulflingen between 1952 and 1969 . As the successor to Gaston Thorn , he took over the office of President of the Democratic Party in 1969 and held this position until 1971, after which Gaston Thorn also became his successor. At the same time he was a member of the municipal council and aldermen of Luxembourg between 1970 and 1979 . In the chamber election on May 26, 1974 , he was elected for the DP to a member of the Chamber of Deputies (Chamber) . During his parliamentary membership, he was a deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from September 24, 1974 and October 1, 1979 .

He resigned his mandate after he had been appointed Minister for the Public Service and Public Works (Ministre de la Fonction publique, Ministre des Travaux public) in the fifth government of Werner on July 16, 1979 . He held these ministerial offices until July 20, 1984. In the chamber election on June 17, 1984 , he was re-elected for the DP as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, to which he belonged after his re-election in the chamber election on June 18, 1989 to 1993. During his parliamentary membership he was again from September 26, 1984 to November 4, 1994 deputy member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In his honor, the René-Konen-Tunnel opened on June 18, 1988 in the city of Luxembourg was named, which is also popularly known as the Heilig-Geist-Tunnel (Helleg-Geescht-Tunnel) . The Stade Boy Konen in Zessingen , where the rugby union club RC Luxemburg plays, also bears his name.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Democracy File: Presidents
  2. ^ Entry on the homepage of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  3. ^ Government of Werner V
  4. ^ Entry on the homepage of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
personal data
SURNAME Konen, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg politician, member of the Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Binsfeld , Weiswampach
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1994
Place of death Luxembourg